Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital

A Fireside Chat with Rob Karp ’19
Rob Karp ’19, the CEO and Founder of MilesAhead, joined a Fireside Chat to share personal experiences and successes in entrepreneurship.

Private Jet Startup Wins Hospitality Pitch Deck Competition
Nolan School MMH students Harry Han and Benjamin Lin delivered a winning pitch for a startup enabling travelers to book private jets online in China.

Entrepreneur and Investment Banker Raj Davé Believes in Helping Others
10 Under 10 honoree and investment banker turned healthcare entrepreneur Raj Davé is passionate about building innovative companies.

John Marks: The Evolution of an Optimist
Search for Common Ground founder John Marks ’65 discussed his work and book, From Vision to Action, with Dean Andrew Karolyi.

Gorges Ventures Fund Hits the Mark with Students and Entrepreneurs
A new student-managed and financed investment club launched by Johnson School MBAs will invest in startups founded by Cornell University students.

Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows Welcome Third Cohort
The Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows program welcomes 29 MBA students, PhD candidates, and post-doctoral fellows.

Hospitality Student Markets Coffee From Her Rural Guatemalan Village
Indigenous student brings fair-trade coffee to Ithaca while empowering her Mam parents and neighbors to command a better price for their beans.

Kicking Off a New Year of Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship Kickoff is hosted each year by Entrepreneurship at Cornell and drew than 300 students this year.

Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator Teams Pitch Startups in NYC
Nineteen teams in the Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator pitched their startups at the Cornell ILR NYC Conference Center.